Frail Vessels: Woman's Role in Women's Novels from Fanny Burney to George Eliot

by Hazel Mews

The years between the publication of Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) and of John Stuart Mill's essay On the Subjection of Women (1869) - a crucial phase in the emancipation movement - also saw the emergence of England's greatest women writers, whose response to the flux of new ideas as revealed in many outstanding works of fiction Dr Mews here examines. The central chapters of the book take the form of a perceptive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472506529
• ISBN13: 9781472506528
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"